Parsing a website's source

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Published on 2014-06-07T13:21:37Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 15:38 UTC
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I want to create an application and maybe upload it to the play store but I am not sure if that what my app does is legal or not.

I am downloading a page's source from a website to get some information I need.

For example if I download a page about the song "Ramble On" by Led Zeppelin and parse this page source to get the song's name, maybe a link to an image and the lyrics. Would that be illegal or can I display these information to my users without getting any problem?

Also the website says it's an "open 'wiki-style' [...].It's completely user built by people like you and used every day by fans and developers alike."

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